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BUILDING A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

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Named in honor of the late Martha Miller, the new Martha Miller

Center for Global Communications symbolizes the academic

excellence afforded by Hope College. Architecturally significant,

this state-of-the-art facility makes an esthetic contribution to the

campus and our community, while facilitating a growing curriculum

in communications and languages. Lakewood construction

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In Honor of Martha MillerHer love for Hope inspired her to give.

Martha Miller Center DedicationFestivities held October 14 & 15.

Designed to Celebrate the Past& Embrace the FutureThe building’s flexibility will serve students into thefuture, while its design emulates Hope’s rich history.

Experiencing the Culture, FirsthandMulti-media takes education to a new level.

A Good Mix of DepartmentsFour departments are rubbing shoulders in the MarthaMiller Center.

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The Miller family’s deep history with the school inspired Martha tocontribute a $3 million leadership gift to the college.

By Carrie Rietsma Specialty Publications Writer

Martha (Muller) Miller loved Hope.Her ties to the college began when her

eldest brother started to attend the school.Her brother encouraged the rest of theMuller family to move from its farm inDanforth, Ill. to Holland, Mich. whenMartha was four years old.

“Her father sold the farm and movedthe family to Holland to enable the rest ofthe children to attend Hope and to takeadvantage of the business opportunities inHolland,” noted Martha’s son, Phil Miller.

“A number of her other siblings alsoattended Hope and her love for the schoolevolved.”

Martha herself was a member of theclass of 1924.

Since then, Martha’s three children andfive of her grandchildren attendedthe school. Now the legacy is continuinginto the fourth generation. Martha’s great-granddaughter and namesake, MarthaMiller, is currently attending classes atHope College.

The family’s deep history with theschool inspired Martha to contribute a $3

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Martha Millerin honor of


Homecoming Weekend has taken onadded meaning at Hope College thisyear as a celebration of the college’s

newest academic building. The dedication andrelated activities for the Martha Miller Center

for Global Communication will take place onFriday and Saturday, October 14-15.

The public is invited. Admission is free.The building, located on Columbia Avenue at

10th Street, houses the departments of commu-nication and modern and classical languages,and the offices of international education andmulticultural life, as well as the college’s newleadership program. It opened in August for thestart of the school year, with classes phasinginto the building through mid-September asfinishing work and the installation of computerand editing equipment was completed.

Friday, October 14The dedication ceremony will be held on

Friday, October 14, at 12:30 pm, with tours of thebuilding following immediately afterward.Participants in the ceremony will include Dr.James Bultman, president of Hope College; Dr.James Boelkins, provost of Hope; a representativeof the Miller family; and representatives of DesignPlus, the architectural firm that designed thebuilding, and the construction manager ofLakewood Construction, Inc. In addition, the “LaEstudiantina” performing group of Queretaro,Mexico, will present a musical selection duringthe dedication.

Related activities in the building will beginFriday morning.

The events will begin at 9 am with a keynoteaddress in the Maas Center auditorium by FloydBrady, a 1968 Hope graduate from Chicago, Ill.,who is the president and chief executive officerof the Dr. H.B. Brady Foundation. There willbe a second keynote address at 1:30 pm, byScott Carpenter, a 1987 Hope graduate fromAlexandria, Va., who is deputy assistantsecretary for Near Eastern Affairs MEPI (MiddleEast Partnership Initiatives) with the US StateDepartment.

Conversations and panel discussions withalumni of programs in the building arescheduled throughout the day: communicationat 10 am in Fried-Hemenway Auditorium;international education at 10 am in room 158 inthe building; multicultural life at 11 am in Fried-Hemenway Auditorium, and the department ofmodern and classical languages at 2:30 pm inFried-Hemenway Auditorium. At 11 am, Dr.Betsy Bach, a 1974 Hope graduate who is amember of the communication studies faculty atthe University of Montana, will discuss graduateschool and global communication, in the multi-cultural life/international education lounge.

In addition, food stations will be set up in thebuilding from 11:30 am to 2 pm for thoseattending the day’s events.

“La Estudiantina” of Queretaro will present aconcert on Friday, October 14, at 7 pm at theKnickerbocker Theatre.

Saturday, October 15Activities will continue throughout the day

Saturday, October 15.There will be a dedication ceremony on

Saturday at 10:30 am of the 84-seat Fried-Hemenway Auditorium, named for Dr. PaulFried, professor emeritus of history, and Dr.Stephen Hemenway, professor of English, theformer and current leader respectively of thecollege’s popular Vienna Summer School. Friedand Hemenway are the only two men to haveled the college’s Vienna Summer School. Theprogram, which is one of the college’sbest-known and most popular internationalprograms, was established in 1956 and iscelebrating its 50th anniversary in 2006 with aspecial alumni trip coordinated by the college’sAlumni Office. Fried, who taught at Hope from1953 until retiring in 1984, is widely recognized


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In addition to the dedication ceremony for the building onFriday at 12:30 pm, there will be a dedication ceremony onSaturday at 10:30 am of the 84-seat Fried-HemenwayAuditorium, named for Dr. Paul Fried (sitting), professor emeritusof history, and Dr. Stephen Hemenway, professor of English, theformer and current leader respectively of the college’s popularVienna Summer School.


— continued from page 3million leadership gift to the college. She made herwishes known before her death on May 16, 1999 at theage of 96.

“The things that were important to Mother were herfaith, her children, her children’s education and hercommunity,” Miller said. “So a gift of a building to HopeCollege was a gift that affirmed and supported all thosethings that were most dear to her.”

The gift from the Miller estate allows Hope College toexpand several programs and better prepare its studentsfor the future. Miller believes his mother would be happywith the new facility.

“Mother, first of all, would be a little embarrassed tohave her name on a building; but when she got past thatI’m sure she would be very pleased,” he said. “As afamily, we look at a building that encompasseslanguages, communication, multicultural life andinternational education and say it couldn’t be a moreappropriate building to put Martha Miller’s name on toreflect her love of people and the diversity of life.”

The new MarthaMiller Center

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— continued from page 4as the architect of the college’s program in inter-national education. Hemenway, who joined thefaculty in 1972, has led the program since 1976.

On Saturday at 11 am, the departments ofcommunication and modern and classicallanguages and the offices of international edu-cation and multicultural life will all hold alumnireceptions and offer tours. Communication andmulticultural life will meet on the first floor of

the rotunda, and alumni whostudied abroad as students andmajors and minors in modern andclassical languages will meet onthe rotunda’s second floor. Therewill be a reception for internation-al student alumni at 4:30 pm onthe first floor of the rotunda.

The 49,000-square-foot MarthaMiller Center for GlobalCommunication is located acrossfrom Phelps Hall on property thatformerly housed LincolnElementary School. The collegebroke ground for the building,constructed for a total project costof $12 million, on April 29, 2004.

The departmental and programmix is viewed as highly comple-mentary, with the goal being thattheir proximity toone another willlead to interactionand collaborationand an overall focuson global awarenessand cultural under-standing that willenhance Hope’swork in preparingstudents for life aftergraduation. The

collective virtue in the designalso follows individual necessity:all four programs were in need ofhomes that matched both the waythey have grown and contempo-rary instructional standards.

The Martha Miller Center project was a partof the college’s $105 million “Legacies: A Visionof Hope” comprehensive campaign. Launchedin October 2000, the campaign concluded onJune 30, 2005, having raised more than $140million. The campaign had four majorcomponents, which in addition to the MarthaMiller Center for Global Communication andmaking general campus improvements were:constructing a new science center andrenovating the Peale Science Center;constructing the Richard and Helen DeVosFieldhouse; and increasing the endowment. Thenew science center opened in August of 2003,the renovation of the Peale Science Center wascompleted in August of 2004, and the Richardand Helen DeVos Fieldhouse is scheduled forcompletion later during the fall semester.

The new editing suites in communication reflect the way that theMartha Miller Center provides both additional space for programsthat outgrew their old homes and supports contemporary instructionalneeds.

The building, located on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street, houses thedepartments of communication and modern and classical languages, and theoffices of international education and multicultural life, as well as the college’snew leadership program.

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The Martha Miller Center is a marriage ofbeauty and function.

“It’s the most beautiful building on campus— not that I’m bias or anything,” laughedCraig Nicely, lead architect and partner atDesign Plus in Grand Rapids.

The 49,000-square-foot facility houses thedepartments of communication and modernand classical languages, and the offices ofinternational education and multicultural life.

The two-story L-shaped building featurestwo wings that are joined together by therotunda, which is perhaps its most prominentfeature. The lower level of the rotunda is apopular meeting place for students and profes-sors to chat or work on group projects. The

— continued on page 8The building’s flexibility will serve students well into the future, while its traditional design emulates Hope’s rich history.

designed to &Celebrate the PastEmbrace the Future

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— continued from page 7upper level tends to be a quieter setting wherestudents can study or catch up on their reading.The entire rotunda, which is situated on the cornerof 10th Street and Columbia Avenue, is envelopedwith large windows and makes a gorgeouscenterpiece for the new facility.

“The rotunda is really symbolic if you thinkabout communication and international culturecoming together,” Nicely noted. “It’s a place forpeople to meet, and there’s a symbol of everythingcoming together in a circle.”

The rotunda even plays a key role in the waystudents learn.

“Learning doesn’t necessarily happen just in theclassrooms,” Nicely added. “It’s in the informalsettings and in the interaction between studentsand teachers. This gives a wonderful place for that

to happen.”The $12 million project also includes seven

classrooms, 38 offices, several lounges andworkrooms, one kitchen, seminar rooms, an 85-seat auditorium, conference rooms, a language lab,a computer lab and a television studio with fourediting suites. The building is home to the campus


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Randy Blauwkamp, site superintendentfrom Lakewood Inc. in Holland, said theclose proximity of the railroad tracks had tobe taken into consideration, especially for therecording studio.

“That was probably the biggest concern,”he said. “The television studio had a lot ofspecialty flooring and footing requirements tomake the room function in the way it wasdesigned.”

“The studio is a building within a building,”Nicely added. “It’s totally isolated and isseparated from the ground as well as thewalls to minimize the sounds and vibrationsthat could create disruption.”

The studio rests on a five-foot bed of sandand gravel and has cement block walls thatare 12 inches thick and filled with sand. Thefive-inch-thick ceiling is made of concrete.

Nicely and Blauwkamp also had to thinkabout the continuous changes in technologyas they designed and constructed the Martha

Miller Center.“We’ve found out in my practice that the

one thing that is constant today is change,”Nicely quipped. “And it’s happening morerapidly and regularly. This building wasplanned with the latest technology in mindand the capabilities to integrate wireless. Wetried to plan things that aren’t too customizedso the spaces can be adaptable over time.”

The building’s flexibility will serve studentswell into the future, while its traditionaldesign emulates Hope’s rich history.

“It truly is beautiful and its timeless style fitswell within the rest of the campus,” Nicely said.

“It’s a welcome addition to the HopeCollege campus in the way it looks and func-tions,” Blauwkamp added. “The building fitsthe overall landscape of the campus very, verywell. I think it turned out awesome.”

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Hope College’s German department is taking learning to a whole newlevel, technically speaking.

“Auf geht’s!” is a collaborative effort to develop computer-based,multi-media teaching materials for first-year German courses at the collegelevel. Dr. Lee Forester, associate professor of German and project developerand head of instructional design for “Auf geht’s!,” believes that studentslearn a language more effectively when they not only study the words andrules of grammar, but also experience thelanguage’s cultural context.

“A look at today’s generation ofstudents reveals that print — books,magazines, newspapers — are not themain way they acquire and share

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A number of Web activities are integratedthroughout the program, including Webquests,on-line shopping, travel arrangements and relatedtasks. The program also features more than 30,000authentic photographs and 100 hours of audioclips of Germans engaged in unscripted, everydayconversation.

“This is real Germans talking about real topics,”Dr. Forester said. “No canned dialogs or phonyreading texts.”

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Four departments are rubbing shoulders inthe Martha Miller Center, and the mix is helpingstudents gain a broader perspective of the worldaround them.

The building houses the departments ofcommunication and modern and classicallanguages, and the offices of internationaleducation and multicultural life. This intentionalblend will enable the programs to complementone another and more effectively preparestudents for the future.

“The synergy created by the presence ofthese four programs under one roof will createa unique model of curricular and co-curricularexchange that will enhance student learningand benefit the college in numerous ways,” saidDr. Nancy Miller, dean for the social sciencesand chair of the Martha Miller Center PlanningTeam. “It is essential that our students gain thecapacity to understand the perspectives ofothers, especially those whose background andexperiences differ from their own.”

Students of all sorts of ethnicities will comeinto contact with one other in the Martha MillerCenter. Even the building’s design was deliberate-ly created to encourage communication betweenthe different departments. Wherever possible,spaces are shared by the four departments ratherthan designated for the use of just one.

“There are open meeting places designed asa common place where students can gather andsocialize,” Dr. Miller noted.

“The ability to communicate across languageand culture will be required of anyone goinginto business, government, education, ministry,social work, medicine and virtually every otherdiscipline,” she continued. “We believe that

students who enter the building will acquire abroadened awareness and heightened sensitivityto diversity in many forms due to the particularcourses they take and the environment theyexperience.”

This design will also support the increasingpopular push for interdisciplinary programming.

“It speaks to our ‘interdisciplinarity’,” said Dr.Lee Forester, associate professor of German.“We’re interested in making connections acrossdifferent disciplines — that’s what liberal artsis about. I think it’s a logical outgrowth of ourphilosophy.”

As courses continue to overlap throughoutthe disciplines, it seems natural to mesh thedepartments of communication and modern


The building’s design was deliberately created to encourage communication between the different depart-ments. Wherever possible, spaces are shared by the four departments rather than designated for the use ofjust one.

• Support Hope’s mission to be excellent incurricular and co-curricular areas

• Provide essential space for programmatic growth• Create synergy between and among the four

programs housed in the Center• Enable students to experience and appreciate

other cultures and ethnicities• Heighten student awareness of and sensitivity to

diversity• Make a strong, public statement about the

importance of diversity on Hope’s campus• Improve foreign language skills and cross-

cultural communication• Affirm the diversity of the Kingdom of God —

that we are all created in God’s image• Promote the recruitment and retention of a more

culturally diverse faculty and student body

Four departments —communication, modern and

classical languages, internationaleducation and multicultural life —

are housed in the Martha MillerCenter. This mix was designed to:

a good mixof departments


As students travel through and study within the Martha Miller Center, they will benefit from the college’scommitment to preparing them to live and serve in a diverse and interconnected world.

— continued from page 13and classical languages, and the offices ofinternational education and multicultural lifeinto one building.

“This will help prepare students better for theworld in which they live,” Dr. Miller said. “Thepush for interdisciplinary programs just makessense. It’s a better way of learning. It doesn’talways fall into a neat package.”

Placing multicultural life and internationaleducation in the Martha Miller Center — acentrally located, high-traffic area — will alsoenhance the visibility of these two programs.

“It makes a strong public statement aboutHope College’s commitment to diversity,” Dr.Miller noted. “It’s a space where multicultural andinternational students will be at the center of theHope community.”

a good mixof departments

— continued from page 11have a lot of digitized foreign languagevideo material available through theMartha Miller Center.”

The building was designed to keep upwith changing technology and updatedteaching techniques.

“The facility was designed to beflexible because we know that we can’tanticipate what technologies will be hotin five years,” Dr. Forester added. “So alot of thought went into how to keep thebuilding flexible so it can grow with thetimes and not become locked into whatmay become an outdated teachingparadigm. I am extremely pleased withhow it came out. It is a tremendousfacility and I can’t think of anotherbuilding for languages or communicationin the whole country that is superior.”

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